During warranty periods for the HP Officejet, Epson Stylus,  photo smart or other NON-Brother brand ink based printer the manufacturers swap out the printers – they do not repair them.  There are a few repair shops with parts, however beware, the parts are off used machines. As an authorized repair facility for several brands we have access to all parts for all printers if offered by the printer manufacturer. the problem is they do not offer parts because they do not have them.

The one except to ink based printer repairs is Brother machines. Brother has all parts needed to repair their brand of printers.  Brother MFC’s are reliable and the advantage to them is that Brother many times gives people warranty repair even beyond the warranty period on their printers.  We have received work orders for Brother printer and MFC’s warranty repairs that are 2..3 years old even when the person has NOT purchased extended warranty.

     So, what exactly is an Inkbag for HP plotters and designjet printers? Inkbags are a patented bulk printing alternative to refurbished cartridges, new designjet inks or messy refill kits and are compatible with many HP printers on the market. The best part is that everything is sealed so there is no mess or confusing directions!  When the Inkbag is empty, simply send it back for credit towards your new purchase!

Every HP designjet Inkbag begins with a recycled ink cartridge. We thoroughly clean each cartridge and install a brand new, custom programmed circuit board in our specialized facility. We then dismantle the cartridge and attach our patented air-tight, vacuum sealed foil pouch filled with our premium ink*. The pouch designed for HP plotters are fused to the cartridge reservoir and the cartridge is reassembled. Every HP  plotted designjet Inkbag undergoes an inspection for functionality and is sent to the consumer. Call Advanced Business Computers Inc an an authorized dealer fro Inkbag systems.

Maximize your designjet plotter ink efficiency with your Inkbags Printing System! Our no-maintenance, trouble-free pouches contain over 5X the volume of a standard HP ink cartridge.

One of the most common problems is ribbon loading when not using direct thermal labels. When you just loaded a ribbon check the path you used for the ribbons installation. Sometimes the users load the ribbon in the same path as the media labels on the Zebra, Sato or Datamax printers, which is incorrect. This would cause paper jams and even excessive wear on the print head. Always check the path right after installation of thermal printer ribbons and/or rolls of labels.

Another common problem is in corrected or outdated printer drivers for your Zebra printer. Use the driver utilities which are an advanced driver program that updates missing, outdated or corrupt device drivers that may be causing your Zebra device to experience problems, slow down or crash. An driver is piece of software the communicates with you printer and acts as a bridge between your thermal label printer and the computer.  Sato and Datamax thermal label printers also require proper and updated drivers to operate efficiently too.

The Ricoh MPC4000 and MPC5000 were developed for medium to high usage to keep up with their in-house production needs. Depending upon your requirements the 40PPM Ricoh MPC4000 or the 50ppm Ricoh MPC5000 will handle all your color copying, scanning, printing and scanning needs up to 11 x 17 paper sizes.  Plus, we can add finishing options that includes stapling, collating, hole punch booklet making and more.

The Ricoh MPC4000 and the MPC5000 include standard network, USB, two 500 sheet input drawers,  scanning and much more. What make this one of the best used refurbished copier printers to obtain is Ricoh’s quality and their commitment to keep parts/supplies for their brand for many, many years.  Plus, there are compatible supplies available that keeps your supply costs down to on the copier printer used machine.

The color copier printer scanner uses separate long life color drums, toners and developers. The Ricoh MPC4000 and MPC5000 fully warranted refurbished units with new toners, drums, developers and feed components cost between $3000 to $4000. But as always make sure its completely refurbished  you buy from a dealer with a history of good support. Or lease the units starting at $159 per month.

Kyocera, also know as Copystar, is the industry leader with very long last copier printers with maintenance kits designed to last 300,000 page or more they are one of the lowest cost copier printer scanner units to operate. Depending upon which model you will own or lease a 25 or 30 page per minute very durable copier printer scanner designed with all the features a growing business needs without the heavy price tags of other brands.

Whether you obtain a Kyocera or Copystar brand then units are exactly the same inside and out except for the name. They use exactly the same copier printer supplies, parts and software. Just like all the Ricoh made machines that are exactly alike except for the name: Rich, Lanier, Savin and Gestetner.

The Kyocera KM-2560 or the KM-3060 produce prints, copies and faxes up to 11 x17 size .  Color scanning, network connectivity, copying, scanning. printing, and much more are all standard on these models. Plus you can add folders, staplers, hole punch, fax and other options. Its one of the best medium size business class copier printer  machine in the market and best of all the is low cost of the unit.

Why are the Kyocera and Copystar brands in such high demand?  simple – durability and longest maintenance duty cycle of any brand in the 30 to 50 page per minute machines.  The Copystar Kyocera 4035, 5035 h 4050 and 5050 has a maintenance duty cycle of 500,000 pages. The 3060 has a duty cycle of 300,000 pages. What does this mean?  Lower operating costs and less failures.  Plus, Kyocera Copystar is the ONLY Digital copier printer company that actual warrants their maintenance kits for the number of page stated if you get the kit installed and registered by an authorized dealer!  Xerox, Canon, Minolta, Sharp, Ricoh and other brands 99% of the time does not give any warranty on the maintenance kits unless you have the units under a maintenance program.

What other brands to consider in the used market?  Ricoh brands (Ricoh, Savin, Gestetner and Lanier) and Sharp.  Again this is based on INDEPENDENT dealers who are not aligned with an particular brand.  So it’s buyer beware when taking to a dealer who is a representative for one particular brand. They have quotas to fill and used copier printer scanners all in one machine office equipment to move out.  Dependent dealers are very bias towards their brands of copiers printer they represent.

When looking to purchase or lease a used refurbished copier printer scanner ask questions. How may techs does the copier dealer employ (out outsource).  If they give you a cell phone as a copier printer repair service Contact beware because most of the time these are one man show companies or companies who totally outsource their printer copier repairs.

You have many choose from simple low volume document scanning and storage you may choose Paperport, a free software programs that comes with Kyocera and other brands of copier printer scanners. Or eDrawer which comes in many flavors depending upon your needs from owning the software to a cloud version that cut costs and relieves you of having to increase your network system in your office

eDrawer is one of our favorites because it’s a very robust document processing scanner system that handles small offices to large corporations in a efficient easy manner. Its’ comprehensive yet affordable enterprise solution, it offers a secure archive to organize, store and version control and provide a central point of company wide distribution of documents scanned, received by fax, printed or email through a complete database system.

The “Cloud” website solution gives you the ability to grow without the expense of buying software, it’s a pay as you need program based on the number of people in your office that needs to access, modify and distribute the documents in the document scanning processing software database.

The big performance in a compact size unit, the Sharp MX-B201D copier printer scanner fax is a great choice.  The Sharp MX-B201D is designed for small offices and work groups delivers features needed for  small office environments who needs documents processed fast.  The 20 page-per-minute copying,  printing and integrated color scanning ensure that your office equipment work needs are met.  It comes standard with a 50-sheet document feeder and duplexing which provides 2-sided scanning for extra efficiency, as well as duplex printing and copying.

The cost-effective Sharp MX-B201, consumable system utilizes a three-component system that’s easy to replace and easy on your wallet.  The toner cartridges have an estimated life of 8,000 pages.  And since business never stands still, the MX-B201D offers flexible options to add Super G3 faxing, networking and web-based management…so you’ll be ready for anything. Plus, they are durable machines when compared to HP printer copier scanners of the same level.

Other brands to consider are the Kyocera FS-1135 which comes standard with copy, printer, scanner and fax which is much more durable than comparable HP copier printer scanner equipment.